Fergus Finlay: Santa helps children one day a year. It’s up to Leo for the other 364

Shelter, security, safety, warmth — these are things that every child must have in your rich and prosperous country

Dear Mr Taoiseach,

I hope you will forgive me, if I struggle with your title. Up here in the very far north, we don’t use titles a lot. My good lady wife, who is, of course, the person really in charge of this operation, always just calls me Mr Claus, even when she is kissing me goodnight. I simply call her “Mum”.